Hollinger Corp. 
P H8.5 



j LC 421 jj 





PUBLISHED BY COLBY & RICH. NO 9 BOSWORTH ST BOSTON. 
COPYRIGHTED, BY THE AUTHOR. 






^ 



O 



EDUCATION, 

OR 

THE COMING MAN. 



AN ESSAY INVOLVING THE BASIC TRUTHS THAT UNDERLIE THE 
UNIVERSAL CHURCH. 

Education reveals the unseen links that connect the 
Creator with creation. It involves the elimination 
of ignorance — the occasion of sin, superstition, big- 
otry, and crime; not alone the ignorance of the 
head, the intellect, the functional capacity to serve 
the external wants and necessities that ally the 
soul to the animal, the brute department of its 
dual nature ; but also the ignorance of the heart, the 
atfectional nature, its organic love — by unfolding the 
spiritual department, its needs and aspirations, which 
ally and uplift the soul to God, good men and the 
ansfel world. 

Religious education in its best sense, involves the 
unfoldment of the moral and spiritual faculties, 
powers and capacities of the soul so as to reveal not 
only the power and perfection behind the throne, 
but also the throne itself, its deputed power, its en- 
tirety, which breaks the bond that bound us to the 
brute and reveals the coming man. 

Religious education is the progressive expression 
of the divine principle of love implanted in the hu- 
man soul; it involves the knowledge of "good and 

7 CO 

evil," their unfoldment, th€ passional nature, its 



r- c< 



:oU^ ^ 



4 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

in time become not only receptive to, but surcharged 
with love — the life of the universe — the infinite 
power that is continually seeking through education 
to unfold and embody itself. 

We are told that by cutting off the seed part of 
the coarser grains, and not allowing them to mature, 
we may produce a different order — a higher grade. 
It has been demonstrated, always with the same re- 
sults (oats, under this treatment will produce rye), 
showing the existence of the law. 

We are told by agricultural chemists that great 
droughts are necessary at times ; that they enable an 
electric substance, an essential element, to come up 
from the subsoil below, to vivify, unfold, and per- 
fect the vegetable kingdom. As with the soil of 
earth, so with the soul of man : the divine principle 
of love seeks for a more and still more perfect form 
of expression. 

To educate, to unfold, is to depute original power. 
The human soul controlled by law and governed by 
motive is, under God, the creator of its own destiny. 

It cannot be said that the animal, controlled by in- 
stinct, is an inventor. It is not a dual being, has no 
individualized, conscious mind with which to think, 
reason, choose, form and reform motives for action. 
It has an instinctive mentality that knows without 
thought, and does with consummate wisdom all that 
is neccessary to be done for the preservation, propa- 
gation and perfection of its kind. 

It is left for man, the crowning work of creation, 
with his dual nature, his external and internal men- 
tality which allies him through his animal wants and 
necessities to the animal, the brute creation, as well 
as through his love and spiritual aspiration to God 



EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAX. 5 

and the angel world — to discover, to unfold and per- 
fect himself, the coming man. 

There are three prominent means of education, 
each involving thought, receptivity and inspiration — 
first, invention, second, discovery, and third, creation. 
Necessity is the mother of invention, discovery the 
child, and creation the effect. In their effects they 
are closely related to each other, but in their attributes 
they differ as follows: ''To invent is to make 
something new, either in its entirety or by arranging 
and combining old and well-known parts to produce 
a new and useful result." Sir J. Reynolds says, in- 
vention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new 
combination of those images which have been pre- 
viously gathered and deposited in the memory. 
Nothing can be made of nothing ; he who has laid 
up no material can produce no new combinations. 

Discovery is defined, exposing to view something 
found out, not known before, but existing. Princi- 
ples said to be eternal involve subjects of discovery. 
Harvey discovered the circulation of blood ; Colum- 
bus discovered America ; they did not invent them, 
they existed before. On the other hand, we say 
Galileo invented the telescope ; Watt the steam-en- 
gine ; and Morse the telegraph. 

Creation is defined, to bring into existence, to 
originate, to cause to exist by the force of original or 
deputed power, things that did not exist before. 

Albert Andreen, the patent solicitor, says in his 
essay on invention that Adam in the allegorical gar- 
den was but slightly removed from the brute, that 
he did not know as a conscious entity that there was 
either good or evil; but it is evident from the effects 
that followed that he had within him an innate spirit- 



6 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

mil as well as external capacity and needs which the 
animals about him did not possess. 

It is obvious that there was in his soul — its internal 
presence chamber — innate, uncreated, self -existing 
principles of nature which we may call justice, mercy 
and truth, or love, light and life ; the he, she, or it 
— the us that said to itself, let us, the triune principle 
of life, make man, and did in so doing put itself 
into the work. And that when man partook of the 
tree of knowledge —the soul's awakement to need 
involved necessity the mother of invention, and im- 
mediately the inventive faculties were set to work. 
The thinking man was born into higher life which 
change involved death ; to its previous condition 
we die as Paul said, daily to the old as we are born 
to the new. 

Immediately the inventive faculty is set to work, 
for we read that they made garments to cover them- 
selves, and in the next generation they knew the use 
of fire in making burnt offerings ; and farther on we 
hear of their descendants living in tents, cooking 
food, tilling the ground, and making implements for 
domestic use, for chase and defense. Onward they 
pass, inventing more and more until fixed houses 
were made, temples constructed for the worship of 
their Maker, and ornaments for their garments, and 
the interior of their houses were affected. 

This is precisely the way we find savage races to- 
day improving their condition by inventing. First, 
the body is clothed in rude skins, or a dress is made of 
leaves or grass, then food is prepared by aid of fire, 
a home is made in a cave or under trees, a tent is 
made, utensils invented for cooking and preparing 
iood, and a weapon made for chase and defense. At 



EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 7 

first only a stone or sling-shot, and farther on, the 
club, and bow, and arrow. By his inventions man is 
now superior to his surroundings and able to defend 
himself and procure abundant food. Then comes 
the desire for ornamenting and beautifying every- 
thing he has made. His bow and arrow are carved, 
his body embellished with paints, animals' teeth, and 
feathers, his clothing is made more liberal, and in 
fact everything that he has made must receive the 
beautifying stamp of his inventive genius. Then he 
invents traps for catching birds and animals, and 
hooks and nets for fishing ; next he domesticates 
animals and teaches them to bear his burdens, and 
carry him from place to place. 

At first he rides horseback ; further on, he con- 
ceives the idea of attaching two poles, one on each 
side of the horse, the ends of which drag on the 
ground, and on which he places the burden. Picture 
to yourself the glorious conception of the axle tree 
at the ends of the shafts provided "with wheels ; this 
must have made in its day as much of a revolution in 
the history of mankind as the invention of steam, 
railroads, and telegraphs in our days. We have ob- 
served the coming man in his untried innocence (the 
metaphysical garden of the gods), how that he was 
but slightly removed from the brute. We have no- 
ticed his march onward, how he has broadened and 
enlarged his person, expanded and improved his 
presence, beautified his home and surroundings; but 
if we look beneath appearance, the social garb of life, 
we may see that he is an animal, and perhaps only 
an animal, if not a brute still. We grant that man 
is an intellectual animal of great capacity, as such 
has grown or may grow to an enormous size ; but his 



8 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

education has been almost all in the animal depart- 
ment of his nature. Scientists tell us that tadpoles 
will grow to an enormous size in the dark, but that 
it requires light to transform them into frogs ; so 
with Adamic men, they may expand in all directions 
and become intellectual giants, so as to successfully 
challenge the entire army of the faithful. As with 
the tadpole so with the animal man. We have re- 
markable specimens among the gladiatorial survival 
of the "fkfhtiest. " Our friend Robert Ingersoll as 
an illustration : he, as a man, is deep, broad, and 
exhaustive, generous to a fault, educated in the 
highest style of artistic culture, a gentleman, with 
voice, person and presence worthy of a god, and yet 
he is human, with great magnetic power, and large 
intuitional capacity. 

Brother Ingersoll may not know it, but he has been 
greatly blest. He has large capacity. Metaphysi- 
cally speaking, he has been fed on a generous diet, 
was well formed to begin with and does not need 
much reforming ; and there is more due and expected 
from him for the benefit of suffering humanity than 
there is from us ordinary knock-kneed, humpbacked, 
wall-eyed Christians that have been kept on theo- 
logical skilly and have had to contend with our envi- 
ronment ever since we were born. Pardon us, we in- 
tend no offence to the poor cripples that use creeds as 
crutches with which to walk. We expect them to 
do so, we have done it. It is well they should until 
they learn to walk alone which we find by experience, 
is one and the same thino- as walking with God. 

Brother Ingersoll don't know where the theo- 
logical shoe pinches, he has never worn it or been 
a denominational shoe-maker. It is no fault of his, 



education; or, the coming man. 9 

not thinking as we do. It has been said by an emin- 
ent divine, that " there is more faith in an honest 
doubt than there is in half the creeds." From our 
standpoint, Ingersoll entertains that doubt, and is, 
so to speak, as free from all religion as the Jews 
were from Christianity ; consequently he can have no 
commiseration for us, the different ists in all the dif- 
ferent isms that serve as means to ends in unfolding 
the coming mau. 

" Fighting is by nature dear to the heart of man." 
The men with swords and spears, with needle-guns 
and rifled-cannon, have by no means had a monopoly 
of the business. The scholars, the theologians, the 
men of the closet, have kept up a warfare quite as 
extensive and energetic. To men in earnest to ad- 
vance the truth, the polemical method has often 
seemed the natural, and indeed the only way, but 
it destroys charity, and rouses the spirit of envy ; it 
ingenders strife, and is not participated in by well 
educated souls in the higher departments of life. 

Sweet sinners, natural humanitarians, men that 
make no pretensions to ethics or religion, are more 
companionable as associates in business, politics or 
religion, than sour saints — pious, dogmatic bigots who 
" know it all." Esau, one of the allegorical figures in 
the Old Testament, the natural expression of our 
dual nature, was a nobler, more generous soul than 
his twin brother Jacob (that represents the animal 
department of our nature as well as the literal 
church), who, figuratively speaking, stole the birth- 
right, prostituting it upon the animal plane ; not 
that Jacob (the animal man or the literal church) 
ever possessed by theft or imputed righteous- 
ness the spiritual inheritance, except so far or in 



10 EDUCATION ; OK, THE COMING MAN. 

proportion to their co-operation in the spiritual de- 
partment of their duality, which allies to God and 
unfolds the coming man. Faith in the historic 
Christ, in so far as it may possess the substance of 
the essential Christ — the living Word — serves as 
means to ends, but the end of ends is the coming 
man — God Almighty — his personal presence in the 
Image he has made. 

Our gladiatorial friend is outspoken; he says: 
'* While utterly discarding all creeds, and denying 
the truth of all religions, there is neither in my 
heart nor upon my lips a sneer for the hopeful, lov- 
ing and tender souls who believe that from all this 
discord will result a perfect harmony ; that every evil 
will in some mysterious way be overruled for good, 
and that above and over all there is a Being who, in 
some mysterious way, will reclaim and glorify all 
the children of men ; but for the creeds of those who 
glibly prove that salvation is almost impossible ; 
that damnation is almost certain ; that the highway 
of the universe leads to hell ; who till life with fear 
and death with horror ; who curse the cradle and 
mock the tomb, — it is impossible to entertain other 
than feelings of pity, contempt and scorn." 

The education of the coming man has been almost 
entirely on the animal, the brutal side of his nature. 
This is shown more in his religion, if possible, than in 
his politics. It is strange what sacrifices men will 
make for party, property, place and power; how 
like serpents they will squirm, wriggle and belittle 
their manhood to obtain their ends. Men change 
their politics, and their creeds (shells of truth), as 
lobsters change their crusts. It may improve their 
appearance, size, and prospects, but not the species; 



EDUCATION ; OK, THE COMING MAX. 11 

they remain lobsters still. It is said that lobsters 
shed their shells twenty-one times before they come 
to maturity. We have never seen and never expect 
to see any one animal man grow so large, broad, 
deep or high, as to outgrow his animalities. It is as 
inconsistent as it would be to expect to see a man 
lift himself by taking hold of his boots. It comes of 
a new type through transformation, regeneration, 
conviction, conversion or the like. Education in its 
best sense, the unfoldment of the divine — our Crea- 
tor within us, as defined, is the only thing that can 
do it. 

We would not extol science at the cost of reli- 
gion. From our standpoint they are one and the 
same thing. The truer the theory, the purer the 
practice; the truer the science, the purer the reli- 
gion; the higher the morals, the nobler, more god- 
like, the life; the happier, the more useful the soul 
is, in its theory and practice. We all know this ; it 
is self-evident. We also know by a more or less 
sad experience that such is or has been our personal 
bias towards the animal department of our nature, 
its brutal tendencies, that unless we were continually 
on our guard we went to the bad in some sense every 
time. It was so with Paul : there was a continual 
warfare within him. It is the law of our dual nature ; 
one or the other must be master — the spiritual, with 
its love and aspiration towards God and the angel 
world ; or the selfish, towards the brutal and de- 
moniac state or condition, where might is right and 
the large live on the small. To illustrate : 

Mr. Bysan Jones relates that he had, on one occa- 
sion, introduced six crabs of different size into an 
aquarium ; one of them venturing towards the middle 



12 education; or, the coming man. 

of the reservoir, was immediately accosted by another, 
a little larger, which took it with its claws, as it 
might have taken a biscuit, and set about breaking 
its shell, and so found a way to his flesh. It dug its 
crooked claws into it with voluptuous enjoyment, 
appearing to pay no attention to the anger and jeal- 
ousy of another of his companions, which was still • 
stronger, and as cruel, and advanced towards them. 
But as Horace says — and he was not the first to say it, 

"No one is altogether happy in this lower world." 
Our ferocious crustacean quietly continued its repast, 
when its companion seized it exactly as it had seized 
its prey, broke and tore it in the same fashion, pene- 
trating to its middle, and tearing out its entrails in 
the same savage manner. In the meantime the vic- 
tim, singularly enough, did not disturb itself for an 
instant, but continued to eat the first crab, bit by 
bit, until it was itself entirely torn to pieces by its 
own executioner — a remarbable instance at once of 
insensibility to pain and of cruel affliction under the 
lex talionis. To eat and to be eaten is the law of 
animalism. 

How true to life in church and state. When we 
contemplate its truthfulness we are more than filled 
with admiration and contempt. We admire — no man 
with a particle of manhood within him can help ad- 
miring — the pluck, the clear grit of the animal, the 
economy of nature, and how through such executions 
the large are fattened upon the small, and our tables 
are served with the choicest food. 

On the other hand, when we contemplate what this 
picture is introduced to illustrate, language fails us ; 
our contempt is unutterable. Look at the late re- 
ports — many of them church fights, ministerial 



EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 13 

wrangles, places where chief moguls retire rather 
than be contaminated by expressions of common 
sense — and you will not wonder at the monstrosities 
in theology that are strutting about us ; when we con- 
sider that each and all of these dictatorial saints 
are only allowed to join their church on what is con- 
sidered a good and sufficient experience in religion, 
in other words, on their belief that they had been con- 
verted, changed, transformed for the better, you will 
join with me in the exclamation : What, if they have 
been changed for the better, in the name of goodness 
could they have been before ! Verily, the doctrine 
they teach needs no apology. They are justified on 
the animal plane in the belief of unmitigated deprav- 
ity. I can conceive nothing short of sublime bigotry 
combined with pure cussedness that will fill the bill. 

But we would not complain of the ungrown apples 
for being green, bitter, distasteful or even danger- 
ous to use ; but we would use truth as a skillful 
gardener would use a sharp knife to cut the bark of 
hide-bound trees, and give their souls a chance to 
grow. No, we would not condemn the fig-tree for 
the lack of fruit while the season of -bearing has not 
yet come. 

Blood tells in the animal races ; but it is love, 
enlightened love, unfolded with and throughout the 
affectional nature, its organic life and spiritual pro- 
clivities, that tells in the human and unfolds con- 
structively the coming man. 

J. Clegg Wright says : Dr. Talmage and minds 
of his order have power to finally see things which, 
in spite of their own priestly repression, finally and 
naturally develop into universal acceptance on the 
part of mankind, but they have no instinctive wel- 



14 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

come of the New ; the cloud of superstition dims the 
broadening mental landscape before their eyes — 
their intellectual powers, the prisoners of creeds, 
dare make no excursions, on their own account, 
among "the green pastures and beside the still 
waters" of that peace which cometh from an en- 
lightened understanding. 

Years of development, cycles of fact-presenta- 
tion have been required to do the work, but to-day 
man has achieved a position where he realizes that 
the hour has come when a readjustment in these 
ancient myths, which time has crystallized into creeds, 
must be made, and made in obedience to and in 
harmony with the demands of reason and common 
sense. If we measure the mighty changes produced 
in the remote ages, we are forced to the declaration 
that unless the attitude assumed to-day by religious 
teachers is altered, and that right speedily, the 
Church will be left high and dry, rotting upon the 
sands of time. No faith can outlast the forces that 
brought it into being : Christianity, that phase of it 
represented by Mr. Talmage, has had its day. The 
At-one-ment compassed by the dying of a God is a 
lingering barbarism, an heirloom of the past which 
has survived the changes and removals which the age 
of science has introduced. How absurd the state- 
ment that a few men in the plenitude of political 
power executed him — and that he, a God, died ! and 
that death opened a crimson fountain within whose 
bloody circumference a sinful world in all succeeding 
ages might " wash its damning stains away !" 

It is said that in the old schools the masters used 
frogs to produce certain electric effects; they gave 
no good reason why they did it, but continued to do 



education; or, the coming man. 15 

so, affirming that it was the only way the thing could 
be done. It was not until long after a young stu- 
dent had demonstrated the fact that damp paper 
served a better purpose, aud was much easier man- 
aged, that his teaching was adopted, and came into 
general use. What serves the purpose of progress 
in one age, hinders and obstructs in another. The 
doctrine of vicarious atonement is a frog that has 
served its purpose, not only as a frog, but as a tad- 
pole ; in the Mosaic as well as in the Christian 
Church. 

No belief or form of faith can outlive the inspira- 
tion that brought it into being. Absolute knowledge 
obtained by observation and experience alone sur- 
vives. The truth involved in the old doctrine of 
vicarious at-one-ment through blood lives and finds a 
more perfect expression in the doctrine of attuned 
at-one-ment through enlightened love of good, there- 
suit of education which unfolds the coming man, our 
Saviour that must uplift and glorify the race. 

"Enlightened love, sanctified by true religion, can 
never die.'' "It is too delicate a plant to thrive in 
the chilly atmosphere of neglect ; let it be warmed 
by the breath of pure affection, and it will grow and 
thrive, giving forth beauty, fragrance, and fruit." 
"Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protesta- 
tion, nor even home itself, content the unfolding 
soul that dwells in clay ; it rouses itself, at last, 
from these endearments, as toys, and puts on the 
harness and aspires to vast and universal aims. The 
great end and aim of life is to become united with 
God, that his service may be our joy, his presence 
our perpetual home. The essential elements of a 
true home are not confined to the few, but opened to 



16 education; or, the coming man. 

the many ; home is too rich a boon to be monopo- 
lized by any class, or limited to any external condi- 
tion of men." Trust not the spontaneity of love; 
the fountains play freely only when the reservoir is 
full, and the reservoir soon fails when the little rills, 
rivulets, springs and streams, gushing out of the 
mountain-side, are- cut off. It is the thousand little 
mossy droppings, pearly rills, and hidden springs 
of living affection, gushing out of the sunny slopes, 
shady retreats, and rocky glens of e very-day life, 
that give to the fountain of love its true spontaneity. 

6i It is not all of life to live or all of death to die ;"' 
"felling forests is not the end of agriculture ; driv- 
ing pirates from the sea is not the end of commerce." 
" We are laying the foundation of the grand temple 
of the future, not the temple of all the gods, but of 
all the people, wherein, with appropriate rites, will 
be celebrated the religion of humanity." In the words 
of another, we are doing what little we can to hasten 
the coming of the day when society shall cease pro- 
ducing millionaires and mendicants, gorged indolence 
and famished industry, truth in rags, and superstition 
robed and crowned. We are looking for the time 
when the useful shall be the honorable, when the 
true shall be the beautiful, and when reason throned 
upon the world's brain shall be the "King of kings 
and Lord of lords." 

True religion may be defined to be a life of recep- 
tive trust in the providence of God. The soul may 
be considered a divine plant receiving its substance 
from God ; and if we allow cares, trials, frivolity, 
and speculation to engross our whole time, and as 
rocks to prevent the tendrils of our hearts from tak- 
ing hold on Him, or as choking weeds to hinder the 



education; or, the coming man. 17 

leaves of desire from expanding in the sunlight of 
His countenance, we cannot expect a vigorous growth. 
If we cut off the tender fibrils which crowd the roots, 
we cannot look for beauteous blossoms. As well 
hide the material plant from the natural sun, and ex- 
pect to gather the luscious fruit, as to deprive the 
soul of spiritual communion, love andreligious associ- 
ations, and hope for a glorious development. 

The religions that have preceded us have served 
the purposes of divine economy, as means to ends, 
in the order they obtained. 

As the monkey and the ape, as well as the lion and 
the lamb, preceded man in the order of creation, so 
the more cruel and barbarous religions preceded and 
made possible the more humane — divine religions of 
to-day, which in their turn must give way to the 
ever-unfolding Word — the progressive development 
of the coming man. 

Cut man loose from the object of his affection, or 
the religion that bound him, without ffiving him a 
new point to which to attach himself, and he straight- 
way falls into a pit of despair; induce him day by 
day to fix his affections on more and still more 
worthy objects, and step by step he approaches 
nearer and nearer, and reflects more and more clearly, 
the ima^e of the Perfect God. 

Ethical and religious truths depicted in the sacred 
books of the world are three-fold in their nature or 
mode of interpretation. Like the chestnut they have 
an external husk, an inner shell and the meat or life- 
giving substance within. The outer protects the inner 
and enables the inmost to unfold and demonstrate 
itself. The thing demonstrated we call revealed re- 
ligion, the soul of science or the coming man. 



18 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

. Years ago Prof. Hitchcock in a sermon delivered 
in Park St. church, speaking of God in the Bible as a 
literal Word, said : The Bible is a pictorial, a pano- 
ramic expression of truth as well as a historic detail of 
effects ; that if we read it as poetry it is sublimely 
beautiful, wonderfully adapted to every state or condi- 
tion the soul can be placed in ; but if we read it as 
prose we materially injure or entirely destroy its use- 
fulness. In his concluding prayer looking Godward 
he said: "Fan us with gentle breezes from the 
heavenly shore.'' Hitchcock has long since passed 
to the summer land, but his spirit lives in his out- 
spoken and exhaustive statements to uplift and bless 
the race. 

Education is the external product of its internal 
self. The thinking thing produced is eternal — uncre- 
ated. There is nothing new. Creation is the un- 
folclment of what already existed. All that would 
be well educated must teach themselves. Teaching" 
ethics has to do with the chemistry of life, it pertains 
to the laboratory of the mind, the presence-chamber of 
the gods, their spiritual make-up, the formation and 
reformation of motives, the survival of the fittest, and 
their final success and perfection in the perpetual 
motion of love, light and life. 

Religious brutes (there are such), are cruel, vin- 
dictive and dogmatic. The larger the head, the 
keener the intellect ; the stronger the functional 
capacity of the soul on the animal plane, the more 
degrading and damnable is the society in which they 
govern. Brutes in religion exceed in what they call 
piety and in their ignorance believe to be a virtue. 
They scoff at science, ignore reason, and belittle 
morality ; figuratively speaking, they have no discrim- 



education; or, the coming man. 19 

inating conception of human worth ; to them salvation 
is free, righteousness imputed, and religion an insur- 
ance policy against fire. We would emphasize the 
fact that cultured animalism, labeled Christianity, is 
a disgrace to Christendom and the nineteenth century. 
It is the result of education. Our schoolmasters do 
not comprehend their calling ; there is too much head 
and too little heart put into the matter. We do not 
distinguish as we should between the development 
of the faculties and functions of life, things to be 
used, and the progression of the soul itself. Thu 
one is the capacity to do, the other the doer who 
takes the responsibility of the thing done. 

Christianity, as practiced within and throughout 
Christendom, is a barbaric failure. This continual 
warfare between capital and labor, the excessive and 
cruel competition that pushes the poor to the wall, is 
the result of our selfish, our animal education. 
There is a superabundance of wealth, power and 
ability. The more we have, with our present mo- 
tives, to use, the worse off we are. It is no remedy 
to electioneer God into the constitution ; force has 
served its mission ; universal love and good will should 
have a trial. As society is, the persons of property, 
place, and power are no worse, if so bad, in their 
designs and motives of action, than the less fortu- 
nate, the suffering, half-fed millious that serve the 
purposes of society. 

If the croaking crowd now ground down by com- 
petitive talent, capital, and political '* innage," were 
allowed to change places with those who now oppress 
them, things would be no better, perhaps worse, until 
the new-comers had become somewhat satiated with 
public pap. Statute laws can do but little, if any- 



20 education; or, the coming man. 

thing for our relief. They might lessen the hours of 
labor, grant a better grade of taxation etc., but so 
long as we have the present competitive system 
under the animal law of demand and supply, we are 
doomed to a lingering death. 

What we need is, not an abandonment of the com- 
petitive system, but its transition to a higher plane ; 
not more stringent statute laws to make men be 
and do better, not more intellect or knowledge of 
ways and means, but an entirely different and dis- 
tinct class of motives : so to use as not to abuse the 
properties, places, powers and capacities we already 
have ; motives pertaining to and reflecting the spirit- 
ual, the divine, the Christ department of our dual nat- 
ure, instead of, as at present, the animal, the brutish, 
the Judas department of our physical life, so that when* 
a man looked at his bank account it would be to see 
how much he had on hand as steward, for the general 
good of humanity, of which he was a part, and en- 
titled to only his proportion. Motives that would con- 
st]' tute good acts, kind feelings, and happy results, 
the common occurrences of everyday life, in fact, the 
necessities of our existence, so that the more money, 
jDroperty, places or power, any one man had, the 
better off all the others would be. This present 
sanctimonious talk about love to God is inconsistent 
with our present modes of treating men. What is 
needed is motives that would constitute values of 
all --kinds and conditions, blessings to lift and unfold 
the race, instead of being, as values now are, a curse, 
where with we degrade ourselves by degrading others. 
The reward of meanness is more meanness. We 
have it to such an extent that no clothing, we care 
not how rich or gorgeous it may be, can cover up 



education; or, the coming man. 21 

the deformity or lift the monkey into the position of 
a man. Murder will out. Our motives are mur- 
derous — suicidal — and should be regenerated. 

As it lies in our mind, a few natural orators, pro- 
foundly endowed in the love of the truths herein 
seeking utterance, educationally freed from the bonds 
that bound them to the brute, could, if properly sus- 
tained in the pulpits of the Hub, so move, transform 
aud revolutionize the universe as to demonstrate the 
practical presence of the Master — the coming man — 
whom Christians profess to serve. 

AY hat are the facts in the case? Have we not all 
done wrong ? Are we willing to be forgiven ? Have 
we no spiritual aspirations ? Do Ave not desire a 
purer, more elevated condition of society? Are not 
the historical characters Jacob and Esau of the Old 
Testament representative figures? Do not the 
Judas and the Jesus of the New Testament stand as 
representatives of our external and internal dual na- 
ture? Was not Judas true to the animal department 
of his nature ? Did he not take the silver and hanor 
himself? Is not the animal, the brute department of 
our nature, suicidal? Is not Christendom destroy- 
ing itself to-day ? Did not Jesus stand for the inter- 
nal, the spiritual department? Did not the Christ, 
the living Word that obtained in the undesignino* 
Nazarene, exhibit the only way to master the diffi- 
culties ? Was not his death and resurrection emble- 
matic? Is it not the fact that in proportion as we 
die to the animal we are born, made alive to the 
spiritual? In short, is not education in its best 
sense the thing we need ? In the light of the fore- 
going we conclude that to be well educated is to so 
learn to delight in the purest good and truest use 



22 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

of life as to render all other goods and uses unsatis- 
factory, if not impossible. 

Experience illustrates the good, the use of affliction, 
to unfold, to regenerate suffering selfhood, to deepen, 
broaden, open up and beautify its life and usefulness. 

"Think not that in becoming a disciple of any 
religion you are to escape any penalty, any punish- 
ment which is attached to the violation of natural 
and immutable law — any punishment which has for 
its aim reform and improvement ; and any punishment 
which is not reformatory is cruel and ungodly, 
whether it is inflicted here or in the spiritual realm, 
at the present time or in the hereafter. Nature has 
attached to every law, physical and spiritual, her 
penalty for the protection and preservation of har- 
mony in the universe, that this sweet symphony of 
life shall have introduced into its grand runs and 
trills no discords; and every moan that has broken 
from the passionate lips of humanity, every thrill of 
anguish that has fired the nerve of the human body 
or tortured the human heart, hath for its object the 
purification and the ultimate joy of the human soul ; 
for whether it is inflicted here upon the physical 
man, or there upon a spiritual and deathless being, 
it is for the same purpose. 

"Pain here is the sentinel that stands at the gate- 
way of life, saving us from total destruction. Pain 
in the spiritual realm, anguish of soul, is for a sim- 
ilar purpose, that, as moral beings, we may be 
quickened into clearer conceptions of truth, and ad- 
vanced to a higher life. 

"All calamities which appeal to the public heart, 
mind and sympathies, are missionary preachers in 
the interests of human progress. Accidents of all 



EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 23 

kinds, whether by the overmastering influence of 
the elements or as the results of human action, 
whenever they call forth those tones of sorrow and 
suffering which waken up responsive chords in the 
hearts of a pitying multitude, invariably create the 
urgent demand for improved methods ; thus the cry 
of agony from the whelming wave, the consuming 
fire, or the crashing ruin, is an appeal which will 
vibrate forever in the ear of sympathy, until the 
leaders of science have organized means of prevention 
against the recurrence of future fatalities. But 
whilst this view may seem no less hopeful than true, 
in considering the means by which human progress 
has been effected, it also seems to present a stern 
and remorseless picture of the destiny which has 
overwhelmed the martyrs to science. Here upon 
this earth death must end all. Retribution for 
wrong or compensation for right, are principles 
universally felt, but only dimly visible in action in 
the seething cauldron of human society. Kind 
hearts break in silence. Pure lives are often wasted 
in garrets and cellars. Wickedness sits in high 
places, and iniquity as often revels in the palace as 
it lurks in the felon's cell. For all these, and ten 
thousand other problems that the realm of material 
law can never solve, there is no answer to be rendered 
until we lift the veil that hides the world of mind 
and effect from the world of matter and cause, and 
trace out how the man has left his gold or his rags 
behind him, has commenced a new life with a capital 
of soul-powers instead of those derived from physical 
life and perhaps brutal surroundings." 

We have boxed the compass of denominational 
thought, have breakfasted and dined on isms, and now 



24 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

propose to have universal truth unadulterated in alt 
its forms for supper. From our standpoint educa- 
tion, the evolution of love — the personal unfoldment 
in us of justice, mercy, and truth — is to do the work 
and unfold the coming man. 

Many of us have believed and some of us still be- 
lieve in the infallibility of the Bible. So to speak, 
we have walked right out on what we thought was 
the literal word of God. We have contended dog- 
matically for, as we thought, the faith once delivered 
to the saints— divine truth. The most valiant among 
us would have died rather than yield a theological 
point. "Don't misunderstand us, we don't intend to 
go back on God or religion." "As a man thinketh so 
is he." We were godlike before we made our last 
transit, but it was sublimely distant, on a very literal, 
insignificant plane. Some of us in the contemplative 
rather than in the combative sphere of action accepted 
the Hitchcock, the figurative, or pictorial view of the 
Bible. It was an improvement, but still we felt the 
necessity of an infallible interpreter to read and ex- 
pound the figures used in the pictures, the discrete 
conditions of life therein delineated; the prominent 
characters brought to view, what they stood for — typ- 
ified — or what truth they were intended to inculcate. 
But further on we discovered that an infallible guide 
must of necessity be limited in it's capacity to teach 
by our fallibility, our finite capacity to understand; 
that an infallible guide to be effective and successful 
must be infinite and so conditioned as to be every- 
where present in law, which law though always the 
same is through its providences ever varying, always 
adapting itself to the especial, the peculiar circum- 
stances, states and conditions of the persons influence^ 



EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 25 

thereby. This idea is gloriously adapted to the wants 
of the human soul. It is the only one by which may 
be produced the effect each man knows he needs. 
Such an idea is not unreasonable, nor is such a course 
a mark of fickleness on the part of God. As well 
accuse him of fickleness of mind because from the 
same soil expanded by the same sun, watered by the 
same showers, two plants grow side by side as dis- 
similar as the rose and the violet. As well accuse him 
of inconsistency because the acorn planted in the deep 
soil expands into the splendid oak, while another 
dropped in a crevice of some granite rock becomes 
a mere scrubby shrub. 

In short, we discovered through contemplation and 
receptivity, that the existence of an infallible guide 
involved a perfect providence to superintend, direct 
and cause to be done all things that were, are, or 
ever will need to be done, consistent with the per- 
fect sovereignty of God our creator, preserver, and 
benefactor, and the more or less free agency of man 
which must ever be in accordance with, or in pro- 
portion to his education, unfoldment, or deputed 
power as heretofore set forth. 

To conceive, or invent such a perfect providence, 
infallible guide, seems impossible, but to discover it if 
it already existed seems the most natural thing in the 
world. As has been done by scientists for the un- 
foldment of astronomical knowledge, so do for the 
ethical and religious development of man. Turn 
your optics to the point of expectancy, the per- 
turbation that indicates the something that attracts, 
the burr, the outer shell of the nut, the literal ren- 
dering of what has been called divine truth. 

Skeptical scientists have seen and examined it 



26 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

before. Their criticisms have crushed the external 
life out of it. They tell us that our literal statements 
are untrue, that geology grinds Genesis to pow- 
der, that the thinking mills of scientific life are 
united in this opinion all over the world. They 
further tell us that truth is eternal, unalterable like 
the sun in the heavens. Other things may change, 
but it, the cause of day and night, never. They tell 
us that all parts of truth agree with each other ; that 
each statement made must agree with all other state- 
ments or there is more remaining that must be elim- 
inated ; things reasonable may be believed, but that 
no number of beliefs no matter how important, should 
overbalance a single fact; that scientific knowledge 
should be held distinct from speculative opinions ; 
that what we know, we know, and that is about 
all we do know; namely "that we know." We 
accept their statements and abandon the exter- 
nal authority, the literal rendering of the Protes- 
tant Bible. Understand us, we don't go back on 
God, religion, or the inspiration of his Word. 
Don't move your object glass, but adjust it closer. 
Look again, the thing seen is of the same shape; 
its conformulations are more perfect and easier 
defined ; it is the inner shell seen and comprehended 
by the new church, the Swedenborgian phase of life; 
more acceptable than the old, the self-styled orthodox 
church, or literal statement of truth. But it, the so- 
called new church, is unsatisfactory. It is equally 
rigid and unreliable; unsympathetic, except with 
the cultured, the kid-gloved portion of humanity. 
There is little or nothing in this, the inner shell, for 
the commiseration of the unfortunate sons of toil, igno- 
rance and crime, the so-called mudsills of Christen- 



EDUCATION; OR, THE COMING MAN. 27 

dom that were damned as far as damnation was possi- 
ble in the mothers that bore them before they were 
born, upon which our literal church stands and sub- 
sists. The producers are God's poor, the devil's poor 
and the poor devils. We, the kid-gloved saints 
upon the animal plane, gobble up the product, like 
the crustaceans, and consume as we are beinof con- 
s umed the weaker specimens of humanity that pro- 
duce it, beating and bruising our own and their 
brutality against the battlements of our animal nature, 
" kicking against the pricks." 

Well, look again. What is needed is a pictorial 
view of life, true to our spiritual nature, that shall 
include, comprehend and express an infinite, almighty 
and everywhere present cause ; All-Father, in whom 
we can trust, so conditioned in ways and means that 
nothing can go absolutely wrong, but must in the 
providence of life, work together for the perfect good 
of all concerned, causatively unfolding the coming 
man — the personification of perfect love, light and life. 
Arrange your glass still closer, or what is better, 
obtain a new one ; the latest style, the best make, of 
the most superior opticians, and gradually bring the 
focus down to the closest point until you break the 
shell (figuratively the Mosaic tables, the outer and 
inner stones on which were written the command- 
ments, now known to be prophecies being fulfilled), 
and you will discover that it is in the inmost of the 
within, the same old theological nut in its inner shell, 
so hard to crack, and that within it is the presence- 
chamber of the gods in which the us — the unfolding 
personality of love, light and life — is involved ready 
and waiting, like Lazarus in the tomb or the Christ 
in the sepulchre, to come forth through education 



28 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

as defined and guide us resurrectively into all truth. 

Induce the philosopher to look through this inter- 
nal kaleidoscope of spiritual life, and he will tell you 
that there is, there must be a spiritual, non-extended 
indestructible substance or objective immortal entity 
superadded to, and independent of, brain, which 
thinks, feels and wills ; a substance cognizable by 
self-consciousness alone, and which is, in fact, the 
thinking principle, or proper soul, and that nothing 
else can fill the bill or account for the facts seen, 
felt and known to exist. 

We find upon further examination of this super- 
induced entity, that it is perfect in knowledge, acts 
without thought, and is, so to speak, an inner, un- 
conscious consciousness — an omnipresent substance 
of law, that acts as it is acted upon ; that it cannot 
be multiplied to increase nor divided to diminish, 
but is everywhere present, and dependent upon con- 
ditions for its manifestation. As our consciousness- 
cognizes it, it is the substance of truth; an intelli- 
gent magnet or touchstone unto which all principles, 
statements and truths may be brought; that truth 
and truth alone " sufEceth it;" that it is our infalli- 
ble guide ; that our Bible and all bibles are but pic- 
torial expressions of truth, but that this superin- 
duced entity is truth itself, and that through our 
unfolding receptivities, education, as defined, will 
guide us into all truth, and thus unfold the coming 
man. 

Scientists tell us that in the lower manifestations 
of life, plants and animals may be divided, cut apart 
and live ; that new parts grow and take their place : 
but as we advance in vegetable and animal life such 
is not the case. So in the growth and development 



EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 29 

of the human family, the humanitarian man, the 
metaphysical body of God, as it unfolds in the goods 
and uses of life, the functions, their perfection and 
necessity, becomes more and more apparent, until the 
life that seems so selfish, so demoniac, is seen, felt 
and known to be the manifestation of universal love, 
divine in principle, now as then a necessary mani- 
festation of God himself — his eternal life, through 
instinct and intuition seeking to embody, to evolute 
himself, his personality — perfect love, will and wis- 
dom in the heart and conscience of the race. 

Music, to the educated soul, is the progressive 
transformations of the inhar monies of hell, through 
the regenerating enlightenments of love, into that 
divine harmony which uplifts and embodies the un- 
dying soul in its successive, awakening at-one-ments 
with the Infinite — the Almighty Cause — which un- 
folds itself — the coming man. 

The uneducated musician manages with great care 
to read a single part of the most simple tune ; it taxes 
his entire capacity to do it. The educated master 
reads and plays all parts of the most difficult and 
complex composition without thought or extraordi- 
nary effort ; he does it automatically. Instinct that 
controls the animal kingdom is opened up within 
him educationally. He is unfolding in that depart- 
ment of his nature. As in music, so in ethics and re- 
ligion. The unre^enerated human in which the di- 
vine is being awakened may, by great effort, constant 
study, and continued care, conform in a measure 
to the external rules of religion, the principles, 
beauty, and use of which he does not understand ; 
the educated human that perceives, comprehends, 
and enjoys the principles involved does not require 



30 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

effort or care to perform the functions of the higher 
moral or religious life. He is educated in that de- 
partment of his nature. He is, so to speak, a 
medium through which the Infinite Intelligence that 
controls the animals through instinct has obtained 
and manifests Itself intuitional! y ; eternal life, the 
principle involved, has been opened up within him 
regeneratively. 

Professors tell us that if a single note is struck on 
a perfectly attuned instrument, all other notes in har- 
mony therewith respond. As in music, so in self- 
hoods, the instruments of life, if they be in attuned 
at-one-ment, the eternal will respond instinctively, 
voicing the finite instrument, exhibiting its capacity 
in accordance with law to express the sum and sub- 
stance of spirit-presence, its qualitative differ entiali- 
ties in love, light, and life. 

Induce the materialistic scientist to conform to 
the requisite condition and look receptively deep down 
within himself, the inmost department of his spiritual 
being, and he will behold not only an epitome of 
creation but the Creator himself, his veritable entity 
— the coming man. 

Spirituality, as the soul of science, is a gladsome, 
joyous study. It has to do with our affectional 
nature, the receptivities of the soul. It unfolds the 
subjective world, and demonstrates the personal 
presence of God in the uufoldment and transforma- 
tion of the race. 

Truth is an emanation of divine life. There are 
self-insertive rays that impregnate themselves in us. 
Their conception, unfoldment and birth in us is the 
beginning to be of our divine sonship. We were 
living souls with the breath of life in us ; we are 



education; ok, the coming man. 31 

now quickened spirits — offsprings, out-births of the 
living God— unfinished revelations of his will — the 
living, unfolding Word — the essential Christ, in the 
coming man. 

Pain and pleasure are the alternating points of 
progress, the one as essential as the other. We may 
make life comparatively painful or pleasant in pro- 
portion to our knowledge — power to do, the "upper" 
and lower understanding how to do it. 

The oyster, could it reason, might complain of 
sickness and pain. Had its experience been differ- 
ent, the pearl, the result of disease, could not have 
formed within it. So with the Adamic man; had 
he not fallen from his estate of untried innocence, 
the nobility of Godlike virtue and generous brother- 
hood could not have obtained within him. 

Eternal life and eternal death are significant terms 
indicating antipodal conditions. Eternal life is the 
continued and never-ending awakement into higher 
and still higher degrees of goods and uses. 

GOD . 

Bias is a partial failure, not a fatal fault. If our 
ship has bias we should put in more where required 
and balance it. Too much width, depth, or thick- 
ness here or there, fore or aft, on the starboard or 
larboard bow, or wrong material is the cause. Ex- 
amine the hull, spars and rigging, and as well the 
cargo aboard, and rectify the failure. If the cargo 
is wrong, right it; if the craft lists or its burden is 
liable to change, call the stevedore, drop ^ie plumb 
from truck to keel, look to your hatches, break bulk 
if necessary, careen her God ward and know that 
everything on board is right ; then go ahead with a 
will, and God, good men, and angels will help you 
on your way. When we understand the law, 



32 EDUCATION ; OR, THE COMING MAN. 

the how to do it, figuratively speaking, it does itself. 

Education, as defined, is designed to do for human 
iife what the compass has done- for commerce — put 
God Almighty, his intelligent presence into the 
binnacle of every human craft that floats. 

God is love ; we cannot love a mere abstraction ; 
it must be incarnated in form to be effective. That 
form must be our own, conceived in ourselves, the 
.spiritual department of our nature. The thing to be 
conceived or created is a differentiating love, light 
and life ; the veritable Logos, living Word, differing 
from all other words, in which difference is our per- 
fect providence, the infallible guide, our better self, 
eternal life, onr future home. 

We know — we have walked therein — that " There 
is a path which no fowl kuoweth, which the vulture's 
eye hath not seen." "It cannot be gotten for gold, 
neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof ; 
"the lion's whelps have not trodden it"; "God un- 
derstandeth the way thereof," "and the thing that 
is hid bringeth he forth to light " through what we 
have defined as education. 

The kick of the dying mule is the most potential. 
Cast iron theology is at an end. Stand away from the 
creedal cupola ; modern thinkers, workmen, moulders 
in the foundry of life have drawn from it all that 
they need. Let the bottom down with all its fire, 
cinders and slag, and skim as you may the cream 
from off the milk of human kindness, purify its sub- 
stance in yourselves at the fire of love — love to God 
and love to man, trusting that its effect in the lamp 
of life shall serve as oil when the cry is made : 
The bridegroom — the coming man — cometh. 



\ 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



021 327 774 1 







NVOLVING THE BASIC TRUTH! 

THAT UNDERLIE 

THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH. 



PHOTO -CLEC CO BOSTON. 



PUBLISHED BY COLBY & RICH. NO 9 BOSWORTH ST BOSTON 
COPYRIGHTED, BY THE AUTHOR. 



iSSMX 0F CONGRESS 



021 327 774 1 



Hollinger Corp. 
P H8.5 



